Quote from: Feeds On Minds on Jun 18, 2017, 04:28:52 PM
Ugh..I was hoping Covenant would kill any chance of old Scott making more of these..
Still got my fingers crossed he's not allowed to do any further damage to the series.
Something better happened, imo:
It made enough that to series could continue under Scott.
But it also underperformed, and when Fox reads the reviews and comments, they will get the answer to the question of whether Prometheus would have been more successful as a direct Alien prequel. In other words, they overvalued the Alien brand and undervalued Prometheus. Fans seem to be slowly realizing this, also. Imagine if the bombing of Blade Runner was attributed to a lack of xenos and Scott made an immediate follow-up without Deckard but crawling with aliens? You can't recreated a past success. No Star Wars film has outperformed A New Hope. Most franchises trend downwards. And Scott has made four sci-fi movies that were great without being sequels to established franchises. Fox should stop recreating and start creating.
They will rethink the Alien prequel idea, again, which I think is good. Scott, Rothman, and Lindelof were vindicated in their belief that audiences want something fresh. Next time, they should listen to Scott more and hire a screenwriter with a fresh take, like Spaihts and Lindelof had. If (or, imo, when) that movie does better than Covenant, then they have definitive proof that fresh takes reinvigorate franchises and painting by the numbers slowly milks them dry.
